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Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning offers a path to leverage noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices for drug discovery, but optimal model architectures remain unclear. We systematically optimize the quantum-classical bridge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Andrew Smith , Erhan Guven

The genetic code has been shown to be very error robust compared to randomly selected codes, but to be significantly less error robust than a certain code found by a heuristic algorithm. We formulate this optimisation problem as a Quadratic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Harry Buhrman , Peter T. S. van der Gulik , Steven M. Kelk , Wouter M. Koolen , Leen Stougie

In this paper, we focus on the two-user Gaussian interference channel (GIC), and study the Han-Kobayashi (HK) coding/decoding strategy with the objective of designing low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A code optimization algorithm is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Shahrouz Sharifi , A. Korhan Tanc , Tolga M. Duman

The Gilbert--Varshamov (GV) bound is a classical existential result in coding theory. It implies that a random linear binary code of rate $\epsilon^2$ has relative distance at least $\frac{1}{2} - O(\epsilon)$ with high probability.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Dean Doron , Jonathan Mosheiff , Mary Wootters

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to discover drug candidates by finding molecules (ligands) that bind tightly to a disease-related protein (targets), which is the primary approach to computer-aided drug discovery. Recently, applying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

This paper proposes small tree-width graph decomposition computational protein design CFN instances defined according to the model [1] with protocol defined by Simononcini et al [2] . The proteins used in the benchmark have been selected in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-09-05 David Allouche

We prove that $poly(t) \cdot n^{1/D}$-depth local random quantum circuits with two qudit nearest-neighbor gates on a $D$-dimensional lattice with n qudits are approximate $t$-designs in various measures. These include the "monomial"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Aram Harrow , Saeed Mehraban

We demonstrate how a genetic algorithm solves the problem of minimizing the resources used for network coding, subject to a throughput constraint, in a multicast scenario. A genetic algorithm avoids the computational complexity that makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Minkyu Kim , Varun Aggarwal , Una-May O'Reilly , Muriel Medard , Wonsik Kim

We prove three new lower bounds for graph connectivity in the $1$-bit broadcast congested clique model, BCC$(1)$. First, in the KT-$0$ version of BCC$(1)$, in which nodes are aware of neighbors only through port numbers, we show an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Shreyas Pai , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

We wish to minimize the resources used for network coding while achieving the desired throughput in a multicast scenario. We employ evolutionary approaches, based on a genetic algorithm, that avoid the computational complexity that makes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Minkyu Kim , Muriel Medard , Varun Aggarwal , Una-May O'Reilly , Wonsik Kim , Chang Wook Ahn , Michelle Effros

Inspired by prior work by Tian and by Cao and Xu, this paper presents an efficient computer-aided framework to characterize the fundamental limits of coded caching systems under the constraint of linear coding. The proposed framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Niccolò Brembilla , Yinbin Ma , Pietro Belotti , Federico Malucelli , Daniela Tuninetti

DNA-encoded small molecule libraries (DELs) have enabled discovery of novel inhibitors for many distinct protein targets of therapeutic value through screening of libraries with up to billions of unique small molecules. We demonstrate a new…

Clustering is a fundamental tool that has garnered significant interest across a wide range of applications including text analysis. To improve clustering accuracy, many researchers have incorporated background knowledge, typically in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Chaoqi Jia , Weihong Wu , Longkun Guo , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Kok-Leong Ong

In this paper, it is demonstrated that the DNA-based algorithm [Ho et al. 2005] for solving an instance of the clique problem to any a graph G = (V, E) with n vertices and p edges and its complementary graph G1 = (V, E1) with n vertices and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-05-14 Weng-Long Chang , Ting-Ting Ren , Mang Feng , Jun Luo , Kawuu Weicheng Lin , Minyi Guo , Lai Chin Lu

Particle storage rings are a rich application domain for online optimization algorithms. The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has hundreds of independently powered magnets, making it a high-dimensional test-problem for algorithmic…

We examine an error-correcting coding framework in which each coded symbol is constrained to be a function of a fixed subset of the message symbols. With an eye toward distributed storage applications, we seek to design systematic codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Wael Halbawi , Matthew Thill , Babak Hassibi

This work approaches human chromosome mapping by developing algorithms for ordering markers associated with radiation hybrid data. Motivated by recent work of Boehnke et al. [1], we formulate the ordering problem by developing stochastic…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 C. T. Falk , H. Falk

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes, known for their threshold saturation phenomenon and low-latency windowed decoding algorithms, are ideal for streaming applications and data storage systems. SC codes are constructed by partitioning an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Siyi Yang , Ahmed Hareedy , Robert Calderbank , Lara Dolecek

We present a finite blocklength performance bound for a DNA storage channel with insertions, deletions, and substitutions. The considered bound -- the dependency testing (DT) bound, introduced by Polyanskiy et al. in 2010 -- provides an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Issam Maarouf , Gianluigi Liva , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We design a heuristic method, a genetic algorithm, for the computation of an upper bound of the minimum distance of a linear code over a finite field. By the use of the row reduced echelon form, we obtain a permutation encoding of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-20 José Gómez-Torrecillas , F. J. Lobillo , Gabriel Navarro